Power Source Information: Wave power is the enegy that produce energy from the waves.
History: people were trying to make machine in 1974. people made a machine in 1978 but it didn't produce much energy.
People designed new machine in 1984. In 1997, people made new machine and it produced quite lots of energy.
Now, we are using it and it produced lots of energy.
How we get energy from the power source: There are many ways to get energy from the waves. One of them works like a machine that make waves.
At a swimming pool, air is blown in and out of a chamber beside the pool, which makes the water outside up and down. Causing waves.
At a wave power station, the waves arriving cause the water in the chamber to rise and fall, which means that air is forced in and out of the hole
in the top of the chamber.
Inputs and or Resources required for the power:
How the Resouces is transformed to produce electricity:
Cost of the inputs/resources:
Where the resource is from: Ocean ,
Impact of the resource extraction:
Affects of the power generation on the environment:
Outputs (pollution, waste, byproducts) from the power generation
Impact on animals or habitats
Impact on people : Some designs are really noisy so it will effect people.
Cost of building the generator: 15million dollar.
Time to build the generator:
Cost of the energy produced to consumers: 22500dollar.
Energy produced per power plant, per year: wave power produce energy that 1500house can use it (2.25MW).
The risks:
Risk of an accident, in a percentage
Result of a major accident
Result of a minor accident
Best location for the power plant:
Disadvantages : -Depends on the waves _ sometimes you'll get loads of enegy. Sometimes almost nothing.
-Needs a suitable site, where waves are consistently strong. -Some designs are noisy. -Must be able to withstand very rough weather.
Advantages : -The energy is free_ no fuel needed, no waste produced. -Not expensive to operate and maintain
-Can produce a great deal of enegy
Additional Information:
-life time : 20years
cost per kilowatt : 7.5cents
- wave power generate 508,032,000 kilowatt perday or as much as a 21,168 GW plant (or 21 power plant)
- History: people were trying to make machine in 1974. people made a machine in 1978 but it didn't produce much energy.
People designed new machine in 1984. In 1997, people made new machine and it produced quite lots of energy.Now, we are using it and it produced lots of energy.
- How we get energy from the power source: There are many ways to get energy from the waves. One of them works like a machine that make waves.
At a swimming pool, air is blown in and out of a chamber beside the pool, which makes the water outside up and down. Causing waves.At a wave power station, the waves arriving cause the water in the chamber to rise and fall, which means that air is forced in and out of the hole
in the top of the chamber.
- Inputs and or Resources required for the power:
- How the Resouces is transformed to produce electricity:
- Cost of the inputs/resources:
- Where the resource is from: Ocean ,
- Impact of the resource extraction:
- Affects of the power generation on the environment:
- Outputs (pollution, waste, byproducts) from the power generation
- Impact on animals or habitats
- Impact on people : Some designs are really noisy so it will effect people.
- Cost of building the generator: 15million dollar.
- Time to build the generator:
- Cost of the energy produced to consumers: 22500dollar.
- Energy produced per power plant, per year: wave power produce energy that 1500house can use it (2.25MW).
- The risks:
- Risk of an accident, in a percentage
- Result of a major accident
- Result of a minor accident
- Best location for the power plant:
- Disadvantages : -Depends on the waves _ sometimes you'll get loads of enegy. Sometimes almost nothing.
-Needs a suitable site, where waves are consistently strong. -Some designs are noisy. -Must be able to withstand very rough weather.- Advantages : -The energy is free_ no fuel needed, no waste produced. -Not expensive to operate and maintain
-Can produce a great deal of enegy- Additional Information:
-life time : 20yearscost per kilowatt : 7.5cents
- wave power generate 508,032,000 kilowatt perday or as much as a 21,168 GW plant (or 21 power plant)
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